OTC vs DEX Trades. Every Trader Should Know the Difference

Most people in DeFi trade through DEXs like Uniswap or PancakeSwap without thinking twice. You connect your wallet, set your slippage, hit swap, simple, right?

But have you ever stopped to wonder where your trade actually goes?

DEX trades rely on liquidity pools, not direct buyers and sellers. That means your order gets matched against a pool of tokens supplied by other users. When you buy or sell, it changes the ratio inside that pool, which affects price. That’s what creates slippage.

Now imagine you’re trading a big bag. The bigger your trade, the more it moves the price. And when that happens, the chart bleeds, bots front-run, and everyone watching sees the impact instantly. That’s why whale trades on DEXs almost always wreck charts.

OTC: Over-the-Counter trading – is completely different. It’s peer-to-peer. Two parties agree on a price and execute directly, without touching a liquidity pool. The trade happens off-market, meaning it doesn’t show as a sell or move the chart. Both sides get what they want, and the market stays stable.

That’s what deOTC brings to DeFi, the ability for anyone to trade like a whale. Peer-to-peer, onchain, without price impact, slippage, or front-running. It’s the same strategy institutions use, now decentralized and available to everyone.

This is what trading should have been all along — clean, direct, and fair.

👉 deotc.io